How have you recorded the vocals for the last 2 albums? When I saw you guys live in Seattle Bellevue they were just being shouted instead of directly mic'd and that's how they sound to me on the albums.

For the most part we've recorded vocal parts normally for the past 2 records with whoever is singing in front of a condenser mic. We then place them in the mix so that they aren't so up front. We like the effect of having the vocals fighting with the rest of the instruments and blending in/not taking the spotlight. That tour where we played in Bellevue was actually the last tour we did without using vocal mics. Since then we've been utilizing microphones live but having the sound guy place them in the mix like they would be on one our albums.